Sergio grew up in the 80s listening to bands such as Freur and Duran Duran. His father introduced him to classical music (Rossini, Strauss), science fiction (above all “2001 a Space Odyssey”) and he taught him how to listen music not just as pure entertainment. Under the influence of his grandfather instead he started studying music, learning to play the clarinet and the accordion. Anyway after some years tired of playing waltz, polka & mazurka music-styles, he got brainwashed by Depeche Mode and Claudio Simonetti… therefore synthesizers became the must-have instruments to play. As birthday present his parents bought him the first keyboard: a very crappy GEM VS2.
At the age of fourteen he joined the rock-band of his “cool” village (Sant’Agostino) but, except having a lot of fun with the other members, he understood that it was not the way to make music he was looking for… Therefore he quit Baghdad Subways (this was the name of the band) and he started exploring the many possibilities offered by the use of the sequencer. After a while he changed keyboard with a more powerful one (a less crappy GEM WX2!), by means of it he started composing his own tunes. Soon he managed to complete his first demo-tape, and this was the starting point of the Alma Mater project. The rest is history… (see chronology section of the site).